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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy
being out on tour,
because I am able
to spend time with
people from all over
the United States.â&#x20AC;?
Matt Borden
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Growing up listening to George Jones,
Merle Haggard and Hank Sr., Country Artist,
Matt Borden fell in love with music at a
young age. The Redmond, OR, native would
spend time with his grandfather going out on
hunting and fishing trips and would bring his
guitar along, as they didn’t have a radio in
the truck.
Borden learned to play the guitar when
he was 14 from his grandpa and uncle and
would sit and play as they fished. At 16,
Borden and his cousins played in restaurants
in Redmond, OR, for an hour at a time,
entertaining people as they ate.
Borden released his debut album, “Wild
Child,” in 2010 and released his second
album, “Out Riding Fences,” in 2012.
Currently, he is back in the studio working
on his third album, which has yet to be
titled or a release date set. Borden spends
approximately three weekends a month
out on the road, playing in different states,
including his home state of Oregon, as well
as Washington and California. Some of the
bigger venues that Borden plays are the
Pendleton Round Up, Sisters Rodeo, the
Humboldt County Hopps Festival, and the
Eastern Livestock Show. Besides spending
time on the road touring with his band, he
occasionally goes on tour with recording
artists, Luke Kaufman and Sonny Ledfurd.
Borden also plays private parties,
honkytonks, fairs, festivals and many other
types of events.
“I really enjoy being out on tour, because
I am able to spend time with people from all
over the United States,” said Borden. “They
all have been through different experiences.
You are able to see many different parts of
the country and spend time hunting and
fishing in places you otherwise would never
have been able to see.”
In the future, Borden plans to take his
career as far as he can, along with his band,
who are with him every step of the way.
Some of
Borden’s
well
known
songs are
“Oregon
Boy,” and
“Stuck at
the Bar.”
“Stuck
at the
Bar,” was
recorded
with Luke
Kaufman.

Borden performing at Johnny’s in
Redding, CA in November 2012.
Photos by Tracye Dethero

Borden is
a talented
musician
and not only
plays the
guitar, but
does his
own vocals,
plays the
base and the
drums. He
is recording
under the
Ledfurd
Records
label. Borden
plays all
different
genres
of music,
but mostly
concentrates
on country
because of
it’s appeal to
his fans.
Borden enjoys spending time with his fans,
sharing a song or a story, or just hanging out
with them. To find more information about Matt
Borden, you can visit his facebook site, or find
him at www.reverbnation.com/mattborden, www.
mattbordenmusic.com and itunes.
Left: Matt out fishing
Right: Matt and his camo guitar
Photos courtesy of Matt Borden
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Koschel gets revenge, huge check in
Xtreme Bulls

SAN ANTONIO, TX – “Fool me once, shame on you, fool
me twice, shame on me.” Josh Koschel took that saying to heart
Feb. 23 in the AT&T Center, and it resulted in his biggest PRCA
win ever.
The 28-year-old won the San Antonio Xtreme Bulls event with
a score of 169.5 points on two head, and he did it with a little help
from a familiar foe.
The bull Koschel rode for 82 points and second place in the
short round – Powder River Rodeo’s Captain America – threw
him off just two days before in the bull riding at the San Antonio
rodeo. The second time, Koschel learned from his mistake and it
led to a huge payday.
“He bucked me off quick the first time, so I was happy to have
him again because I messed it up big time,” said Koschel, who
earned a total of $24,440 in the event. “That bull sucks back and
backs up quick and really tries to draw you down onto him, so
you have to be ready for that.”
“The first time I was thinking about it too much, and this time I
made sure to ride like I know how to, and I was ready for his big
turn.”
Koschel, of Nunn, CO, was one of only four men to ride both
bulls at the AT&T Center on Saturday afternoon. His first ride of
87.5 points resulted in a tie with Corey Navarre for second place
and was on another Powder River bull – Push It.
To win not only his first Xtreme Bulls event, but the biggest of
the year – with a purse of $100,000 – was something special for
Koschel.
“My goal was to make the NFR last year and that didn’t go as
planned, so I was banking on San Antonio to get me going for
2013,” he said.
It’s safe to say Koschel has done that. He came back in the
evening to win the bull riding at the rodeo as well, bringing his
total earnings to $41,306 for his winter trip to San Antonio.
“There have been seasons that I didn’t make this much
money,” Koschel said. “It was my dream coming in here to win
both the Xtreme Bulls and the rodeo but I don’t know if I ever
thought it would really happen.
“Coming off a win from the Xtreme Bulls from earlier in the day
and riding in the finals of the short go that night … the momentum
kind of carries. I think it’s an advantage, because you have so
much confidence and momentum from the day.”
Defending Xtreme Bulls Champion Kanin Asay finished
second in the average with 168 points, earning $18,283, while
Dustin Elliott and J.W. Harris were the other two men to cover
both of their bulls in the Xtreme Bulls event. Asay won both
rounds and the average here a year ago and has banked about
$47,000 in this event over the last two years.
Tyler Willis of Wheatland, WY, won the first round with an
88-point ride on Andrews Rodeo’s Bam Bam, the same bull Ardie
Maier rode for 91 points to win a round at the San Antonio Stock
Show & Rodeo.

MGM Deuces Night dies of colic

DALLAS, TX – Carr Pro Rodeo’s MGM Deuces Night, the
8-year-old mare who was honored as the 2012 PRCA Bareback
Horse of the Year, died February 23 after suffering an episode of
colic at the Elgin, TX, Veterinary Hospital.
It occurred several days after MGM Deuces Night underwent
a minor procedure on an injured coffin bone in her right hoof.
“Dr. (Marty) Tanner said the procedure went well and that she
was doing well, and he was going to send her home Monday
(February 25),” owner Pete Carr said. “We’ve lost some great
horses over the years, but this one stings quite a bit.
“She had been so brilliant so early in her career. She was
a foundation mare, and we were going to breed her for a lot of
years. ”
MGM Deuces Night was born on the Zinser Ranch in Claire,
MI, and then purchased by bareback rider Wes Stevenson, an
eight-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier. He later sold
the horse to Carr, who first took the animal to the NFR in 2010.
She returned to ProRodeo’s finale in 2011 and 2012.
“I knew she was that good, so part of the reason I sold her to
Pete is that I knew she’d have a good shot to go to the Finals,”
Stevenson said. “I bought her from Jim Zinser as a broodmare,
but she bucked so good, I didn’t want to waste her sitting at my
house. I wanted her to have a chance.”
In the six times she performed in Las Vegas, she guided
cowboys to three go-round titles: Kelly Timberman (88 points in
the 10th round, 2010), Ryan Gray (90 points in the fifth round,
2011) and Kaycee Feild (87 points in the 10th round, 2011).
Feild, the two-time and reigning bareback riding world
champion from Spanish Fork, UT, says he earned about
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PRCA Rodeo
Update
Courtesy
of the PRCA
$100,000 on MGM Deuces Night. Feild rode the horse for 90
points at the Ram National Circuit Finals Rodeo in April 2011.
In her short lifetime, the mare led cowboys to a lot of big
paydays. In her first trip during a PRCA rodeo, she guided fivetime NFR qualifier Chris Harris to an 88-point ride to win the
West of the Pecos Rodeo in 2010 – the two had a rematch in
Pecos in 2011, with Harris winning the title again after an 87.
Chase Erickson won the 2011 All American Series Finals title
with an 88 on MGM Deuces Night.

Gillespie’s consistency paying big dividends

George Gillespie IV worked for seven years clearing land for
the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in
the high forests of southwest Oregon, which is to say he knows
a long uphill climb when he sees one.
At 32, he is a bit more than a decade removed from his days
at Eastern Oregon University and yet he is steadfastly working
his way up the trail toward his ultimate goal, summiting at the
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
“It is what I have always wanted,” Gillespie said. “It was my
original plan out of college to go hard and try to make the NFR,
but I got a job as an excavator, then I got married for a couple of
years, bought a house; my life went a different direction.
“When the marriage ended I just decided that I would go back
to rodeo. If I didn’t make it, well that was OK. At least I’d know
I’d given myself a chance to do what I loved. The last couple of
years I’ve started riding better and winning more. Now I feel like
if I can stay healthy there’s no reason why I can’t make a run at
the NFR.”
With a bareback riding win at the March 2-3 Parada del
Sol Rodeo in Scottsdale, AZ, – his second title there in four
years – and a second-place result at the Avi River Stampede in
Fort Mohave, AZ, Gillespie is 17th in the world standings and
climbing.
It has been a season built on consistency. Since the 2013
PRCA season began last October, Gillespie has competed in 21
rodeos and earned checks in 14 of them.
Consistency? In Scottsdale, Gillespie tied Tyson Thompson
for a share of the bareback riding title with a 79-point ride on Salt
River Rodeo’s North Star, and he was second in Fort Mohave
with another 79-pointer on Honeycutt Rodeo’s Hangin Tree.
This is all a wee bit of a surprise from a guy who didn’t buy
his PRCA card until he was 26 and didn’t start pressing his
competitive campaign much out of the California Circuit until
2010. But he is truly after it now.
Gillespie has moved up the world standings in each of the
last three years, from 102nd in 2009, to 42nd in 2010, to 34th in
2011, to 29th a year ago – when he had 12 wins at PRCA rodeos
– and now the Placerville, CA, cowboy is at his highest point yet.
“I got a new rigging for this season and I’m working on fine
tuning a few things,” Gillespie said. “Even when you get low on
funds you can’t allow yourself to focus on the money. Every once
in awhile you have to step back and remind yourself why you are
doing this. If I wanted to be rich, I guess I should have gone to
medical school.
“You have to stay balanced and keep your mind on what
you need to do to be successful, so when an opportunity
does present itself, you can take advantage of it. You can’t be
sporadic in your approach. The really great riders like Bobby
Mote and Kaycee Feild are great every time they compete.”

Elbow surgery sidelines Teel for 2-3 months

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Sometimes life can be just a
little bit too much like a roller coaster ride.
Just one day removed from being honored with a banquet in
his hometown of Kountze, TX, reigning World Champion Bull Rider
Cody Teel dislocated and shattered his left elbow while competing
at an unsanctioned rodeo.
He underwent a four-hour surgery on March 7 in which doctors
inserted two plates and 10 screws. In the short term, Teel will
be wearing a soft cast and will start very light rehabilitation work
shortly in Beaumont, TX.
Teel was released from the hospital on March 10 and returned
home to Kountze.
“The doctors are saying it will be 2-3 months before he can do
any heavy duty physical therapy,” said Teel’s mother, Kami, “and
that he’ll need more time to be ready to compete. As hard-headed
as Cody is, he’s talking about being back in June, in time for the
Reno, NV, Rodeo or earlier.
“Of course, when he had abdominal surgery, the surgeons said
he wouldn’t be able to ride bulls for a year and he was back in
three months. He has proved people wrong before.”
Teel became the second current world champion to undergo
surgery in as many weeks. Team roping header Chad Masters
blew out his knee March 1 at the Timed Event Championship in
Guthrie, OK, and is benched for 6-8 months.
Teel, 20, became the youngest bull riding world champion in
the sport’s history last December when he held off three-time gold
buckle winner J.W. Harris by just $1,056.
The Hardin County Commissioners honored their favorite son
for his achievement with a proclamation making March 5 Cody
Teel Day and his hometown named him Citizen of the Year at a
special Kountze Chamber of Commerce banquet that night.

Kyle Lawrence (5.4 seconds), tie-down roper Will Lane (10.7
seconds) and barrel racer Tiany Schuster (17.80 seconds).
Lane also won the all-around title, pairing his tie-down
roping win with a second-place finish in team roping to bank a
total of $3,072.
The rodeo set a single-day attendance record with an
overflow crowd of about 8,000 on March 9 and also broke the
overall record with more than 21,000 spectators for the three
days.
“I’ve been president of the rodeo committee for 14
years,” Don Hall said, “and this is the first time we’ve had
to turn people away. We finally sent volunteers down to the
intersection to let people know that there was just no more
room.”

Campbell enjoys sweet ride in Mercedes

MERCEDES, TX – Only minutes after Cody Campbell
completed his ride on Cowboy Coffee, Campbell’s family had
the video up on his Facebook page. Who could blame them?
It was one of those nights that stay with a cowboy for a long,
long time.
Campbell’s 92-point ride on Lancaster & Pickett’s Pro
Rodeo’s Cowboy Coffee wasn’t just good enough for the win
at the Xtreme Bulls Division 2 event and a $4,230 check, but it
was also the highest score in the Oregon cowboy’s eight-year
professional career.
More than that, it was the highest score anybody’s ever
had on Cowboy Coffee, the bull that took Shane Proctor to
a Round 8 win at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo last
December and had an 82.35 percent buck-off rate in 2012.
Cowboy Coffee had carried riders to scores of 91-points
three times before, including Chandler Bownds in the finals of
this same event a year ago.
It was the surest sign yet that Campbell, a native of
Nebraskan’s draw a matter of Scheer
Summerville, Ore., who now resides in Eufaula, Okla., is all
delight
the way back from surgery on his left (free) arm that sidelined
ARCADIA, Fla. – Saddle bronc rider Cort Scheer knew once he him for three months at the end of last year.
saw the stock draw that he had history on his side and he wasn’t
Surgeons repaired the damage with a plate and 11 screws.
about to let the opportunity slip away.
Stormy Wing earned $3,243 by finishing second with a
Scheer, a two-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier,
score of 88.5 points on Wild Card Rodeo’s Midnight and Kanin
rode Frontier Rodeo’s Maple Leaf for 89 points and the win at the Asay was third with an 87-point ride on Wild Card Rodeo’s
March 8-10 Arcadia All-Florida Championship Rodeo – just as
Rawhide. Asay’s earnings of $2,397 were enough to move into
Cody DeMoss had done a year ago in the same arena.
second place in the world standings, ahead of injured reigning
Well, actually, it was a bit better than what DeMoss did in 2012; World Champion Cody Teel, and extended his lead in the
Xtreme Bulls Tour standings over Josh Koschel.
he rode Maple Leaf for 85 points to get that win.
“That horse has been good for a long time,” Scheer said. “He’s
Rodeo Austin trophy comes Nicholesa bucking son of a gun. I just had to stay on him. Cody Taton had
plated
a good ride on the horse in Jackson (Miss.), so he was able to
help with how much rein I needed.
AUSTIN, Texas – Already sort of an unofficial Wright brother,
Brady Nicholes moved up into their peer group March 21
“It was challenging all the way. I’ll be honest, I got a little bit
when he beat all five Wrights – and everybody else in the field
loose there for a second, but I managed to pull it together.”
– for the saddle bronc riding title at Rodeo Austin.
The judges rewarded Scheer’s effort with 45 points out of a
Fourth after two rounds, Nicholes took control of this
possible 50 and Maple Leaf, a Wrangler NFR veteran himself,
Wrangler
Million Dollar Tour Gold event, presented by Justin
earned scores of 21 and 23 from the PRCA officials.
Boots, by riding Fire Lane of the Andrews Rodeo string for
It all added up to be enough to hold off 2011 World Champion
86 points in the final. That was good enough to win the round
Bull Rider Shane Proctor and Isaac Diaz – who tied for second
and the three-head average, by a point over two-time World
place – by two points and 2008 Reserve World Champion
Champion Cody Wright (246-245).
Bareback Rider Steven Dent by three.
Nicholes is from Hoytsville, Utah, “up near the Wyoming
Scheer earned $3,255 for the win and moved up from seventh border and about three hours north of the Wrights” in Milford,
to sixth in the saddle bronc riding world standings.
Utah. He’s been traveling with Spencer Wright since the two of
them were seniors in high school and they are teammates at
While he was at it, Scheer took a shot at earning the first allaround title of his career in Arcadia, entering the team roping with Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Goodwell.
fellow Nebraska saddle bronc rider and traveling partner Travis
Sheets. They stayed among the leaders for the first two days, but
“They are all my great friends,” said Nicholes, 21. “I’m
ultimately got bumped out of the money.
not competing against them. We’re all out there just trying to
“I roped and bulldogged in high school and college,” Scheer
win. I’ve been staying with the Wrights, hanging out with them
said, “but this was the first time I team roped in a PRCA rodeo.
since I drove over here to Austin. They were excited for me. All
When I first bought my card I wanted to concentrate on my saddle of my buddies were really pumped about my winning a rodeo
bronc riding and see if I could establish myself.
this big.”
“This is just for fun. We’ll probably do it again somewhere down “Yeah, this was the biggest win I’ve had (it paid him $7,479).
the road and I’d like to enter the bulldogging once in awhile, too.
I can’t even tell you what the previous best would have been.
That’s kind of a goal.”
I’m all about moving forward instead of looking back.”
The biggest bit of final-day drama came in the bull riding where
Nicholes was more than looking forward to riding Fire
Josh Barentine, the leader at the start of the day with a score of
Lane, a horse that Taos Muncy rode for 87 points to win
88 points (good enough to win here a year ago), got bumped all
Round 1 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in December.
the way down to fourth place during a performance that had three
“Everybody told me what a great horse this was,” Nicholes
90-point rides.
said, “and after a rough moment coming out of the chute I got
into a good rhythm and it worked out. It’s such a pleasure to
Clint Craig, of Mena, AR, ended up with the win. He had a
come to a rodeo like this and get on great horses every night.”
91-pointer on Frontier Rodeo’s Sponge Bob, a point better than
Rookie of the Year frontrunner Cooper Davis and Cole Echols.
The win moved Nicholes up from 50th to 17th in the
world standings and sixth in the Wrangler Million Dollar Tour
The other champions in this $76,651 event at the Arcadia
Rodeo Arena were bareback rider Caleb Bennett (87 points), steer standings.
wrestler Tyler Pearson (4.7 seconds), team ropers Brent Aldoff and
continued on page 10
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As the year came to a close for the 2012 season of the American BullRiders Tour
the anticipation began to build as to who would be the 2012 National Champion. It was
apparent that going into the finals just one point separated the 2011 National Champion
Jay Miller from Liberty, SC, and four time ABT Finals qualifier Jon Mastrangelo
from Plainville, GA. It came down to the final bull ride of the last performance. Jon
Mastrangelo was on top of his game, riding bull #499 Brave Heart for an 87 point ride,
the first night of the finals placing 2nd for the night. The final performance saw Jon
cover his long go bull, #453 Grand Illusion, for a 4th place win thus moving him to
second place in the average. That win helped to nail down the National Championship
for Jon Mastrangelo and the coveted Bob Berg Championship buckle.
Rowdy Rice of Easley, SC, was the ABT FINALS average winner for this year. Rowdy
was able to cover all his bulls except the night he drew the two time IPRA World
Champion Bucking Bull of the Year branded X, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wolverineâ&#x20AC;? owned by Ken Treadway.
This year saw another tight race for Rookie of the Year between Levi Whitlock and JT
Stevens Of Alabama. By Saturday night JT went home with the ABT Rookie of the Year
title.
ABT Sportsmanship award went to Rowdy Rice of Easley, SC, and Best Dressed,
chosen by Custom Embroidery of Anderson, was awarded to Jay Miller of Liberty, SC.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is an honor to be the average winner.
The event went real good. I drew some
good bulls and I just had a good
weekend. Thank the lord he let it go my
way, cause there were some good bull
riders there. ABT is a great association.
They have really good bull riders that
come and they pay really good money.
Pam and Ken treat us right and take care
of us.â&#x20AC;?

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Roughstock
Rhetoric
by Roy Graber

CPRA/KPRA GUNSLINGER SERIES FINALS

What was originally going to be just a timed event series ended up benefiting several roughstock hands,
and a pair of Midwestern rodeo associations.
The inaugural Gunslinger Series wrapped up on March 15 in Kingman, KS,
where the series’ winners were presented with not only their cash prizes, but
trophy pistols as well.
Tyler Garten, a Kingman resident who specializes in tie-down roping but also
often enters team roping and steer wrestling, said he had been wanting to bring
some timed event rodeos to Kingman, similar to the ones he had been to in the
Kansas communities of Derby, Whitewater and Lyons. He joined forces with Shane
Henderson, a steer wrestler and team roper, and Shane’s wife Missi, a barrel racer,
to help produce the event.
But once Garten and the Hendersons got to visiting more, they decided to
make it a full-fledged rodeo series and add the roughstock events. And after they
went to the PRCA’s Prairie Circuit Finals, where pistols were given away to round
winners, they found some sponsors who would make it possible to award pistols to
the winner of each event in the five-rodeo series.
Contestants came from not only Kansas, but also Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas,
South Dakota, Colorado, Iowa and Arizona to
compete at the Gunslinger rodeos, held monthly
Ricky Ritter
from November through March. The rodeo series
is sanctioned by both the Central Plains Rodeo Association and the Kansas
Professional Rodeo Association, with points earned in Kingman going toward
final year-end standings for both associations.
Going into the final performance, Dalton Davis was the front-runner in the
saddle bronc riding, having been a winner during three of the previous four
rodeos in the series. All he had to do was cover his bronc in order to get the
event title. He had two cowboys give him a run for his money, but Josh Handy
of Conway Springs slapped his horse with his free hand, and Shade Etbauer
of Goodwell, OK, came down just a split second shy of the whistle. Davis,
meanwhile, put together a nice 76-point ride to claim the bronc riding title.
“He was a nice horse. He weakened a little toward the end, but I just
needed to get him covered. It sure was a blessing to win,” Davis said.
Davis, a three-event hand from Holcomb, KS, was the most successful
contestant of the series, having won the all-around and saddle bronc riding
Dalton Davis
titles, and the pistols that came with them. Davis also competed in the tiedown roping and the team roping. And while he was unable to win either of those event titles, he was solid
enough to gather the all-around prize and pistol.
Ricky Ritter, a bull rider from Augusta, KS, took top honors in his event. He won the bull riding during the
first rodeo of the series, and maintained his top spot in the series.
Ritter, who competes in both associations that sanctioned the series, spoke approvingly of the series.
“This series is good for us. It’s good for both the CPRA and the KPRA,” said Ritter, who last year
finished second in CPRA year-end standings and third in KPRA standings. “It’s good to see guys from both
associations get together and compete. It just makes for a better rodeo overall
and it’s good for everybody.”
Levi Nicholson, Garden City, KS, was the top bareback rider for the series.
Garten, who himself finished second in the tie-down roping event of
the Gunslinger series, said he was pleased with the rodeos, although he
acknowledged he would have liked to had better crowds.
“We brought in some pretty good competition. The stock was pretty good. It
was a lot of work, but it turned out pretty good,” said Garten, who indicated that
the rodeo series may return to Kingman next year.
“We’re going to consider it anyway. With my uncle having bulls just five miles
from town, and I always have calves, so it’s sure a good possibility if we can get
the sponsors. We had great sponsors, who gave from $100 to $500, and we
couldn’t have done it without them.”
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Levi Nicholson

Levi Nicholson

Dalton Davis

All photos copyright
Fotocowboy
Kent Kerschner
Ricky Ritter

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STANDINGS AS OF 4/1/2013
NATIONAL
CAVIN MORGAN

$1,384.85

THAD NEWELL

$1,074.45

CASEY COULTER

$ 802.85

DANNY SCHLOBOHM

$ 570.05

BLAKE ROWAN

$ 376.05

BRADEN METCALF

$ 194.00

BRANDON WESSON

$ 104.45

JESSE MONROE

$ 104.45

KADE ALBERTY

$ 104.45

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
CAVIN MORGAN

$1,384.85

CASEY COULTER

$ 802.85

BLAKE ROWAN

$ 376.05

BRADEN METCALF

$ 194.00

photo by Flash Photo,
Kenneth Hampton

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Night of the Wolverine

Drip, drip, drip, off the cabin eave
Dripping, running, cascading down, into the fallen leaves
The last four days, it had been raining, harder than she had ever seen
Her man was gone, she was all alone, it was the night of the wolverine
The last two nights, she had heard him, scratching at her door
But on this night, if things went right, he would bother her no more
For hours she sat and listened, her senses so intent
Maybe he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show this night, and on the darkness went
Alas, she could not stay awake, and she nodded off to sleep
Then she awoke, to a devilish growl, deadly, guttural, and deep
Then, the scratching started, his feet showed under the door
Like a demon from another world, with his teeth, he ripped, and tore
Her heart was racing a mile a minute, her mind told her to wait
For if she missed her very first shot, it might just seal her fate
With a scream of rage, it burst through the door, she fired and it screamed in pain
Then silence fell, as it turned and ran, except for the falling rain
The rest of the night was torture, she dared not go to sleep
She blocked the hole, in which it came, through which it could not creep
Long after the sun had topped the trees, and the rain had long since gone
Slowly she opened the cabin door, the stench was wickedly strong
Then drip, drip, drip, off the cabin eave
Dripping, running, cascading down, into the fallen leaves
A river of crimson, oozed down the logs, and spattered on her head
Drip, drip, drip, the wolverine was dead

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The Buck Board
April 2013

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The California High School Rodeo Association (CHSRA) was founded in 1970, with the mission of teaching
young cowboys and cowgirls about the sport of rodeo, the development of sportsmanship, horsemanship
and character in youth of our country. The association is divided up into nine districts separated by counties
throughout the state of California. Currently there are approximately 75 bull riders, 20 bareback riders and 20
saddle bronc riders throughout the state. With each district, a slogan using their district number is included.
Along with the high school association, there is also a junior high school association, which was formerly
known as the Wrangler Junior High School Division. It now stands alone
under the umbrella of the California High School Rodeo Association and helps
build the fundamentals of rodeo including junior bull riding.
Each year in March, the top three in each event travel to Plymouth, CA, to
compete in the Challenge of Champions, where the top three cowboys and
cowgirls in each event are able to ride against one another and also have the
opportunity to ride rough stock that will be used at the California High School
Rodeo Association State Finals Rodeo.
The top five riders in each event then meet up again at the end of each
season to compete at the state level in Bishop, CA, where the top four
qualified riders make the trip to the National High School Finals Rodeo in July,
which is held in Rock Springs, WY. The riders that are ranked five through
nine continue on to compete at the International Finals High School Rodeo, which High school cowboys stop
to pray before their ride.
is held each year in Fallon, NV.

CHSRA

The California High School Rodeo Association District 1 team is second to none. They had lady luck on their
side, as bareback rider/bull rider, Casey Meroshnekoff of Red Bluff, CA, won the 2010 and 2012 national title
in the bareback riding. His picture along with other cowboys and cowgirls can be seen larger than life on the
side of Cinch Jeans trucks traveling across the nation. Meroshnekoff has just received his PRCA card and will
join the likes of cowboys from California such as Danny
Webb, Zack Brown, Jordan Spears, Cody Higgins and
Laramie Collins out on the road in search of a trip to the
National Finals Rodeo in December. Quincy Crum of Little
Valley, CA, has been riding saddle bronc horses for the
past three years and is now not only competing at the
high school level, but adds to his resume riding in the
California Cowboys Professional Rodeo Association.
Junior High bull riders
sitting on fence waiting.
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From District 3, the Thundering Three, bull riders Colby Demo of
Los Molinos, Calif. and Levi Johnson of Oroville, CA, are at the top of
their game in bull riding, taking all of the opportunities they can to get
on extra bulls, even if it means heading down to a high school rodeo
in another district. Both cowboys have been able to ride at the world
level in the Youth Bull Riding Association Finals.
“Riding bulls at the high school level has taught me that no matter
the circumstances you have to try your hardest and give it 110
percent,” said Colby Demo. “You always need to be grateful for what
you have.”
In District Four, Nathaniel Lentz is another force to be reckoned
with, as the young bareback rider is winning where ever he rides. He
is also a two event cowboy riding both bulls and bareback horses.
Nathaniel has also had the opportunity to compete at the world level
through the Youth Bull Riders Association.
The one thing that all of the
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members of the California High School Rodeo
Association have found is, rodeo is not only about the sport itself it is
about family.
“We have a great extended rodeo family. The kids have been taught
to help out one another and as parents we are very supportive of this. It
is fun to spend time together each month,” said a District One parent.
You can find more information about the California High School Rodeo Association by checking out their website at www.chsra.org. Each
individual district in the state has its own website and facebook page,
where you can follow the district and their current activities.